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Why Traditional MPLS Networks are Ill-Suited for UCaaS

CATO Networks

Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) adoption is on the rise in the enterprise and with that comes significant impact for IT managers considering how their MPLS network transformation. Internet access remains tightly controlled, with only large, or headquarters facilities having local Internet connectivity. The answer?

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The business case for SD-WAN: Because MPLS is Not Fit for the Cloud

CATO Networks

Multiprotocol label switching protocol (MPLS) based networks, can no longer answer the business needs of a global enterprise. Instead, remote locations generate an increasing amount of traffic bypasses the data center and goes directly to the Internet. Software-defined Wide Area Networks ( SD-WAN ) can get the job done. Here is why.

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4 Ways to Secure Your Cloud Datacenter

CATO Networks

But before you can unleash the power of Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure , or any other Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering, you need to get to the cloud, and thats a lot harder than it sounds. Continuing to backhaul Internet and cloud traffic adds too much latency and consumes costly MPLS bandwidth.

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Why a Backbone Is More Than Just a Bunch of PoPs

CATO Networks

site to site traffic), or to the general Internet. The fact is, many SASE providers use the Internet as the backbone network between their PoPs. There is little or no control over the packets that are traveling on that Internet backbone. Instead of using the general Internet to connect them, Cato has a global private backbone.

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How To Best Design Your WAN for Accessing AWS, Azure, and the Cloud

CATO Networks

At the edge of this network, customers can connect their branch locations, corporate data centers, mobile and remote users to the core network via their preferred carrier services (MPLS, broadband, LTE, etc.) using secure tunnels. Each entity connects to the communication hub nearest them to reduce latency.

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Is SD-WAN Really Dead?

CATO Networks

The new darling of the networking industry would free us from the shackles of legacy MPLS services. It was cute, shiny, and taught enterprises how to walk — walk away, that is, from MPLS to a network designed for the new world. It would give us even more more security, better remote access, and faster deployment.

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The 4 Values of SD-WAN

CATO Networks

The network perimeter has dissolved with IaaS, SaaS, and mobile users breaking that barrier and shifting more traffic to the Internet. MPLS was not designed for this new reality. They connected and secured traffic between stores with an Internet-based, virtual private network (VPN). The provider offered only a 1.5

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